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had some help last night with the windows, cost me a fare few beers but sooooooo much easier!! Was dreading the rear window, but with 3 lads applying even pressure on the out side and me pulling the cord ( I use a old piece of plastic coated washing line) it went in smooth as butter. plus some dish soap for lube.The front one was a little harder, lucky for me my car has a massive hole in the roof and I could just stand up on the seats and give the screen a good push or thump which helped alot.yeah.

Eagers rubbed too much so had to splurge out on some brand new Yokohama A539, which are by far the best tyre I've driven on considering its still a street orientated tyre. Still look aggressive and ride super smooth and nicely. Don't take too long to warm up either and stick reaaaaaally well even in a car with a solid axle and no 4 link lol

its getting difficult to take pictures that show any progress but things are trucking along right nice. the roof is really complex with valleys joining at weird angles and the guys have been getting all that shit sorted. hats off to them because i would have taken years to figure it all out and get the valley boards in the right place. roof. so everything is on site for the roof and everything is just about ready for the roofing guys to put the tin on. i think they're going to start next week but they are a bit behind due to the rain fucking them around so they start when they start. the builders are right now doing the last bits of framing that join the new house to the shed so we probably wont have a shed roof tonight, just a tarp. yay. here is a picture of the front entrance way roof. its has 2 billion meters of timber in it for some reason. this is nearly finished then it gets ply over the top. in the background you can see hardiboard on the walls, we did that around the front of the house to reduce noise a bit. 2017-07-27_08-03-20 by sheepers, on Flickr

Headers are done. Drive shaft built, I had the original commodore one, and a second one that came with the diff. All that was saved was the original commodore yoke, everything else is new. The shaft is 3 inch so good for 6800 rpm or about 300mph in top gear (6800 rpm for the shaft). Should be good. New U bolts also turned up today from rare spares. I stuffed my back lifting 25kg bags of concrete in a big hurry in the rain today so I'm not climbing under the car tonight. A few photos of the drivers side. I am aware that the primary Y connections are wrong. There is not a lot of space!!!!!! The small drop in HP wont be noticed, power to weight should be similar to a current 325 kW HSV Commodore.

Got a wing from Japan and the joker saw on Instagram so sent me these stickers

The dealer replaced the clutch mast in japan, left me a jdm spanner lol

Done. Scarles, so you just know it'll go hard for what it is. Still in the sky at the moment, will drop it down tomorrow and assess what the arch sitch is.

Blind Stupidity is the answer. And if I knew how much there was to change, not to mention rust to fix I probably wouldn't have bought it. I have built a few cars over the years. V8 conversions into HQ Holdens is a piece of cake, stand back and throw it in the hole and away you go. My Firebird was a big mechano set when I bought it, but most parts can be bought off the shelf. This is the hardest project by far because everything has to be changed to fit. My bloody mindedness also made things harder, I will have a column shift, the headers will go down beside the engine not through the inner guards.............. I have got a bit discouraged a couple of times, when I bought the car 13 years ago I could have got a really good HZ wagon for $3k and had it finished years ago. Then I think no one else will have a car like this and really there hasn't been that much money go into it. I'm so close that not finishing now is not an option.

How about aim to be at Stoddard after 8:30am, leave at 9am. Should get us to Smales before it gets too busy, we might even be able to score some prime real estate in the top carpark for once.

This is going to be the single greatest "why the fuck would you do that!? And if you must, why didnt you do it the sensible way using xyz part?" project and im loving it p.s. solidworks had their lawyers send an email telling me to stop using their cracked software and pay them $12,200, so i might join you in learning fusion 360

I'm going to drag myself from the slums, maybe @Matteybean coming from even further South could join in?

Dont chop it! See if the stacked boys can do plastics in a container from japland maybe?

I just realised I havent given much of a rundown! In Sept 2016 I destroyed a gearbox at Hampton Downs, literally turned 3rd gear super smooth. December 2016 we went to oldschool drags with new gearset in W58, I did 3 runs and it got a whine, my old man did a run and she blew a oil line for the oil relocator February 2017 we bought a R151 gearbox and in March 2017 fitted it, I was going to do a Timelapse, recorded it all but forgot to do anything with it. April 2017 I bought the Altezza and started drifting in that (another thread), this went for recert and failed on a bunch of stuff one being steering too heavy - powersteering needed to be fitted. June 2017 we sourced a rack and got it rebuilt, I found some electric PS pumps as factory manual pump would not fit. Also got Traction brackets, adjustable 4 link, adjustable panhard rod and T3 caster arms July 2017 We got GSS to come and sort the lines while I mounted up things behind the guy (literally yesterday). made seat rails and fitted Bride, and 380mm Dish steering wheel with quick release, This saturday I am taking the car to Nothn Fancy Drift day at Meremere to to give it a run in and see if we fixed stuff.

Nice project! Looking forward to see what you come up with when its time to turn them to aluminium. Took me probably 50 castings to get my process reliable so expect some setbacks. Well worth it in the end though!

Now, Will it fit? Well, by crikey, it might just work... Of course it's all good having one side line up, the real test is when #2 is made and whether or not it will simultaneously line up. On the desk it looks plausible. And with some minor filing of the holes on the cylinder head flanges (I haven't fixed the spacing issue with the stud holes) they even fit on the head, with the ID on the intake runner being on the money with the intake port on the cylinder head. It all looks plausible, but just to be sure I drop some bolts of conveniently the right diameter through the holes to see if they line up. Magic, The butterflies open like they should and it appears the intake runner and bottom of the carb line up as they should, not bad for a rookie if I do say so myself.

You could probably say that with a lot of our projects really. The manifold looks bloody good. Bet it is satisfying to see the manifold all completed

Actually I was just doing some in depth reading on the sngl brand I posted above and they are dual sided adjustable less.. they do one that is 12500 lumens..

Choice! Take it to ohakune for labour weekend and meet your Z cars slightly older brother. Could there be a better black 80s 2 seater Z car photo op!?

Too many results for Rust on OS So I'll paste this here : Was looking for the Fuel Tank thread where they did something similar

Right, (for you and for onlookers): The trick here is that delay() is not your friend. While the processor is stuck in the buzz loop waiting for e.g 1000ms, there's 16.000 million processor cycles go un-used. You need to use drop through code. To see one way to go about this, compare the file - examples - basic - blink code with the code in file - examples - digital -BlinkWithoutDelay. As long as your code keeps coming back to check if it's time to 'blink', you can do other stuff in the background. etc.

Top work mate, pipes look good even if lack of space has stuffed the design, will still go like a cut cat on rails! Seat belts are lush as! will have to do something like that one day on mine, horrible generic repco ones are ugly as shit.

Man, you need a windscreen banner proclaiming the Soul Synchro Machine. That's a great slogan, and the world needs to know it.

That brochure, what a fucking foamer lol. Good shit.

Yeah really not keen to chop it! Will get hold of stacked and see what the go is. $45 for a decent fairing is fine to me, $250 freight not so much!

cancel that - will be at ruapehu this weekend

The weekend after is also the 4 and rotary champs in timaru... Who's going on keen on heading over for the weekend?

So we have my lil 76 Escort here. which has been a looooong build in progres. About 5 years in the making. over the next couple of days I will be making a full build thread but this is the first post.. so enjoy

@yoeddynz Hey Alex here is how a megasquirt looks after dead time. cut/paste example. "Megasquirt uses 0.2ms per volt as its standard constant. So for each volt the opening time is reduced by 0.2ms... (and seeing as we love examples!) An injector dead time of 1.1ms @13.2V and a voltage correction value of 0.2ms/V would change to 1.3ms @12.2V and 0.9ms @ 14.2 volts...." crude but effective.

I was showing my wife... she shook my hand, held back some lols and said congratulations you have rebuilt the wheel what an egg

Hey guys and girls! I'm running an event on November 18 called the Hamilton NerdFest which will be at Zeal (Ward Lane, Hamilton CBD) between 12-4pm which will house a record fair, comic book fair, retro gaming zone, sneaker exhibition etc. Basically a bunch of us nerdy collectors will be there with a LOT of content from the 70s-00s. I think it will be a hit and I'm currenly sorting consent to block off a part of the roadway on Ward Lane What would it take to have a handful of cars park up for part of the afternoon (if the roadway consent goes through) and alternatively on Ward Street which is by the venue? I would really love to have some automobiles that reflect the 'retro' theme so just wanting to know what is required to make it happen! Cheers

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The whiskey for tonight is Talisker Dark Storm, The colour is golden amber and the nose has an instant interesting mix of rich, earthy smokiness (this is reminiscent of coal tar soap or freshly laid tarmac), bittersweet malty cereals and barley sugar. The smoke catches the nostrils and has a peppery chili-like edge to it. As these aromas fade a little, others come through - think of vanilla, honeycomb, caramel, fresh green apple, sultanas and a hint of candied orange and brine. On the palate, this is initially quite acrid and slightly bitter with a woody, almost charcoal-like edge. the result is drying and the similar peppery chili note from the nose exaggerates this. These notes are again reminiscent of hot tar, as on the nose, and wet earth. After this first blast, the whisky develops in an interesting way and just in time too. Some much needed sweetness comes through in the form of butterscotch, vanilla, golden syrup, malted barley plus some dried fruits (think especially of raisins, sultanas, candied orange and apricots). Two lovely notes appear towards the end and work well hand in hand with the others present - salted caramel and toasted nuts. A final sprinkle of earthy ginger powder completes the jigsaw. The finish is long and smoulders away for ages. The initial sweetness (the barley, honey, syrup and fruit) fade first, followed by the notes of salted caramel and toasted nuts. It is the warming, acrid and spicy smoke that lasts longest. This has an ultimately drying effect, which makes you want to reach for a sip of water or another sip of the whisky. Haha these reviews always crack me up! See you all tonight

Been daily driving for a couple of weeks now. Leads, plugs and a holley 600 worked mint on the old girl. Taken the tray off and sent it to autoblast to have all the chassis sealed up against the dreaded rust !! Got a mate machining up some boards for the bed, mounted fuel tank in the back and the front seat will be off to be re upholstered soon. Engine swap is happening end of September so anyone after a 327 give me a yell !

My riding skills and trust in reliablity of scoots would need to increase immensly, not even sure any can currently get over hill to ohope let alone east coast!

Pictureless update sorry, phone died. Not super exciting anyway. New clutch kit arrived, fitted new release bearing and checked clutch and pressure plates are correct (they are, yay). chucked flywheel onto new motor, just needs torquing up then can fit clutch etc. So the new motor has holes drilled for two dipstick tube locations, with a plug (looks like brass) in the unused one. I need to chuck the dipstick tube from the old motor into the plugged hole in the new motor, and then block up the other one. Does anyone know of these are just pressed in/can i knock it out? And then do i just get angry with the dipstick tubes and pull them out? Also swapped oil pickups over, as the turbo motor is a different sump (which is why dip sticks need swapping over as well) so the old sump fits. need to find a gasket/reuse the old one with some goo and then can fit that. answer my silly queztions here please

I'd love to hear one pulling 7000 rpm. An old geezer in ragtop XJS went through a worksite I was on once and nailed the gas at the works end sign. Such a sweet noise.

I've fixed the first post so the pictures actually work now. I've put the radiator support panel on and started bolting everything up. I thought I probably should turn it over since its been sitting for so long. With glens help I chucked the battery cables on and it fired up with a good dose of ether. Thats probably going to be all I do on it for the next few months

I fitted the spring today without too much drama I also replaced the sway bar bushes too. The lights turned up from aliexpress last week I mounted them today and ran out light so I'll wire them up tomorrow

While that is going on, a couple of months back another weirdo (I say weirdo because you have to be to own one of these things) lists a V12 Jaguar engine for sale here on Oldschool. On this particular night I'm 3 or 4 Coronas deep, which to me is the perfect amount to assist in making rash decisions without worrying about the consequences. So I message the guy and say I'll take it, and fire some money away. Oh man, It's in Dannevirke. How is this going to work, luckily a buddy was going to a wedding down Wellington ways and picked it up for me on the way back, I then picked it up from his place in the Waikato. It is a Pre HE motor, out of a Series 2 XJ12 sedan according to the block number, The internet led me to believe the Pre HE motors are the ones to get when it comes to these motors, which was it's big selling point. I made a day trip to pick it up and got it back to Auckland and on an engine stand, I swear it was the worlds longest day

Got a new car for work to replace the wagon which was getting a bit tired. I told my boss it needed a headlight bulb and a couple of other small things and by the end of the discussion we were looking for a new car I figured I didn't really need a wagon so that made choices a bit easier, I like falcons despite the issues I've had with the wagon, they are big comfortable things that go ok and are pretty cheap, and don't cost much to fix when they do have dramas. When I got the wagon it had already done 240ish kms so I wanted something with more life in it, I looked at a couple of xr6 s but this one was similar money with 125kms and a bit newer, it's an xt which is the basic spec but it was always going to get the wheels off the wagon and some springs anyway so I did that today. Much betterer

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shits progressing nicely. the veranda steel work is all done and some more sticks got delivered. these are "sky stix" apparently . 2017-07-13_01-28-05 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-07-13_12-31-56 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-07-13_12-31-35 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-07-13_12-31-14 by sheepers, on Flickr

Ski season doesn't finish till the 15th October.

Engine reunited with the transmission and reinstalled in the engine bay today.

Some fun things happening in Central Otago: http://www.highlands.co.nz/action-experiences/tracklaps-breakfast/ Breakfast and hot laps at Highlands anyone? They also have a Petrol Head breakfast in Wanaka. Unlike other PH breakfasts this is open to all cars and Barry's. http://warbirdsandwheels.com/petrolhead-sundays/ So I'm thinking once the snow melts maybe we could do an over nighter in Central? Do some lake laps, brewery tour, BBQ at mine etc. on the Saturday and one of the above breakfast meats.